Breaking Boundaries in Water Research
from Monday, September 24, 2018 7:00AM to Monday, September 24, 2018 6:00PM
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Join the Water Institute on Monday, September 24 for a full day of interdisciplinary dialogue around water research at the University of Waterloo. Water Institute members and international Water Institute board members, including 2016 Stockholm Water Prize winner Joan Rose and 2018 Stockholm Water Prize winner Mark van Loosdrecht, will share their latest research and open up new opportunities for discussion and collaboration. Students from the Collaborative Water Program will also share insights from Waterloo’s most interdisciplinary graduate program. Conference Program 8:30-8:45 a.m. Welcome 8:45-9:30 a.m. Opening Keynote Lecture Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for SanitationJoan Rose, Professor and Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University; 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 9:30-10:30 a.m. Human Health and Well-Being The Dichotomies of Water and Well-BeingSusan Elliott, Professor, Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo We Want to Drink the Water and Drink The Fish: Community-Partnered Contaminant Research in Canada's NorthHeidi Swanson, Professor, Biology, University of WaterlooTo Water Through Governance: Consent-Based Collaboration to Protect WatersMerrell-Ann Phare, Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Winnipeg 10:30-10:50 a.m. BREAK 10:50-11:35 a.m. Collaborative Water Program Students will present outcomes of the Collaborative Water Program's WATER 602 course 11:35-12:35 p.m. Urban Water Systems Robust Drinking Water SystemsPeter Huck, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo; NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment Sustainable Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment ApplicationsMichael Tam, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo Emerging Solutions to the Water Challenges of an Urbanizing WorldTove Larsen, Professor/Group Leader, Urban Water Management at Eawag, Switzerland 12:35-1:20 p.m. LUNCH 1:20-2:20 p.m. Watershed Management River Damming and Carbon CyclingPhilippe Van Cappellen, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo; Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology Global Drinking Water Security: Climate Change Threats and Adaptation StrategiesMonica Emelko, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo The Complex Politics of Governing WatershedsWilliam Blomquist, Professor, Political Science, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 2:20-3:20 p.m. Blue Economy Flood Risk Governance in a Changing ClimateJason Thistlewaite, Professor, Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo The Economics of Water Pollution Control and AbatementAlain-Désiré Nimubona, Professor, Economics, University of Waterloo Working at the Intersection of Academic and Private Sector Research to Support the Blue EconomyBrenda Lucas, Executive Director, Southern Ontario Water Consortium 3:20-3:40 p.m. BREAK 3:40-4:40 p.m. Global Water Cycle Nutrient Legacies in Anthropogenic Catchments: Implications for Water QualityNandita Basu, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo Coupled Hydrodynamic-Biogeochemical-Ice Modelling in Large LakesKevin Lamb, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo Integrated Terrestrial Observatories - The New Initiatives TERENO, MOSES and eLTERGeorg Teutsch, Scientific Director, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany 4:40-5:00 p.m. BREAK 5:00-6:15 p.m. Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture 2018* The Future of Water: Innovation, Resource Recovery, and the Blue EconomyMark van Loosdrecht, 2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate; Professor, Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft, The Netherlands *Free, public lecture. 6:15-7:30 p.m. RECEPTION
Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC)
Room 0101/1103A Waterloo ON CAhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/breaking-boundaries-in-water-research-tickets-46627615453?aff=ebapi
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